photography begins_what is photography

What is photography?

a. The word photography comes from two ancient Greek words: photo, for "light," and graph, for "drawing." "Drawing with light" is a way of describing photography.

b. A selfie

c. A street scene

d. Photography is the science, art and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film, or electronically by means of an image sensor.[1] 

e. A historical document that is frozen time

f. A landscape

g. All of the above and more

What is a camera?

If you  position a piece of white paper and a piece of foil with a small, pin-hole size opening so that the sun shines through the opening and on to the paper, you will see an image of the sun on the paper.

That's physics.

Put them in a box and the same thing happens. If the paper onto which the light is projected is "light-sensitive" you have a pinhole camera.

That's chemistry.

So..........a camera is a light-tight device (box) with an opening at one side to let light in and a means of capturing the projected image created by the light on the other side. 

Digital cameras capture this image with a sensor. Earlier cameras used film to capture the image.

It all began a long time ago

This phenomenon was observed by Aristotle (384-322 BCE) in ancient Greece. 
Camera Obscura. Latin for "darkened room".

Lenses and mirrors were added during the Renaissance.

The first cameras captured the image on a metal plate. They were called daguerreotypes.

Also called tin types. Who is this person?

So, what is a camera? What is missing in this illustration?

Answer these questions

The Beginning of Photography and What Photography Is rev nov 2_2019

100 points

Your name:_______________________________________Block_______

Answer these questions

1. The word photography comes from two ancient Greek words: photo, for "light," and graph, for "drawing." So, drawing with ____________________”

is a way of describing photography.

2. List 3 things that a photograph can be:

3. Digital photography records light electronically by means of an_____________________.

4. If you position a piece of white paper and a piece of foil with a small, pin-hole size opening so that the sun shines through the opening and on to the paper, you will see an ________________ of the _________________ on the paper.

5. So……. In your own words, what is a camera?

6. The Latin name for a darkened room is___________________ 

______________________________________.

7. The first cameras captured the image on a ______________   ___________.

They were called________________________. 

8. What is missing in the last diagram of a camera?

Bonus…who is the famous person in the last daguerreotype?

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